AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, 31 October 1917, Page 5

AMERICA.

Received 8.35. NEW YORK, Oct 30. The Liberty Loan subscriptions ex- - ceed ten millions. Mr. Palmer has already invested in liberty bonds 100,000 ‘ dollars as the result of the sale of certain enemy property in the United States. Mr. Hurley, the Shipping Board Chairman, announces that unless sawmills, turn out the necessary timber the Government will seize all labour and operate the mills for shipbuilding.

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SWEDEN.

> Received 8.35. NEW YORK, Oct 30. There is some speculation as to whether the abnormal rise in Swedish exchange portends international development. It is believed that much Swedish money is being withdrawn from investment in the United States. J ! * * ' a* GENES AL GABLES ■ I CHANGING CHANCELLORS. -ti tofir.;o lionrA: epa; .Received 8.35. !f fj . LONDON, October 30. t Hertling. succeeds Michaelis as German Chancellor, Michaelis is mado, of Prussia. " v • ’ w*, ITALIAN :■?« POLITICS. CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT, Received 9.55. 1 ->>• “' U . .. ,!;■ ! ROME. Oct 30. j v ,S.. Orlando ■is forming a Ministry.,, ill 111 ‘to nj* o'r'.r r- ~ 1 r „ fts GERMANY’S OVERTURES TO v .V FRANCE. 1 » ■ PARIS, October 29. . ‘‘Le Journal” has published the letters of an intermediary showing that "Germany offered France, a separate peace in November. 1915, Germany Sleeping , Alsace-Mo riraine and offered Western Belgium as compensation. FRANCE’S INTERNAL DANGER PARIS, October 29. The editor of the raided Royalist newspaper “Action Francaise” is Leon Daudet, who recently wrote to M. Poincare accusing M. Malvy, a former Minister of thei Interior, of felling plans of the Chemin des Dames offensive to the Germans. The “Petit Parisian ” states that documents seized in the office of “ Action Francaise” prove that the have been for some time preparing their plans and fomenting manifestations of disaffection in the strets, particularly among the poor, concerning the cost of living. GERMANY WILL FIGHT ON FOR YEARS. Is Germany down-hearted? Some of its papers declare in loud type: Never! Why? Here ignhow the Tagliche Rundschau puts forward for the edification of the Allies “Germany’s only terms of peace”: “We demand an autonomous Poland under the y military protection of Germany, Courland, and Lithuania to serve as a protecting wall to East Prussia, and to be linked with the German Empire as new territories, to satisfy the appetite of the German peoplce. We also demand an autonomous Finland, in amicable association with Germany, and Ukrania to be made independent economically on the Central Powers, and Belgium to form a reserved corridor leading to the enemy country but open for.aJJ time to German organisation To attain these objects we if we are forced to it, Aght on for years. We have the long/€st breath, and the enemy will be knocked out hopelesly long before we can be winded.”